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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎516] (547/1050)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (523 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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DHA-DHA
| about 8 fathoms, but the ground in the vicinity is rocky and uneven. A reef, covered at
high water, projects SJ cables in a south-south-westerly direction from the south -eastern
corner of the land spit.— {Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, 1909.)
DHAHAB (T el)—
A small hill in 'Iraq, situated on the western edge of Lake Shinafiyah at a distance of
some 30 or 35 miles south-west from the town of Diwaniyah.
DHAHAIR ( J abal A bu)—
See Hassa (Al) (District),
DHAHAIRAT—
A sub-division of the Al Subaih section of the Bani Khalid {q.v.y
BHAHAK ('Ain)—
A spring in the Shamiyah desert, between Shinafiyah and Samawah.
DHAHAR SIDRAH—
See Maih ( Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. ).
BHAHARAH—
See Washam.
DHAHARAH—
A small settlement near the town of Al-Madinah constituting the first halting-place
on the inland route between that city and Mecca. Dhaharah is either close to, or identi
cal with, Madud-al-Ghurab.
DHAHI—
A village in the Yemen Tihamah, lying a few miles to the north of the Hodeida-Sana'a
route and about equidistant from Hodeida and Bajil, being from 16 to 20 miles from both.
DHAHI (A d)—•
See Thahi.
t)HAHI— #
^ A large village in southern Yemen, situated about 26 or 27 miles north by east from
Hodeida. Dhahi is built on the right bank of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sirdud, and though it lies off
6 \ ° r eS x? U e een Hodeida and Lahiyah, caravans often call there on their
way between these two ports.
BHAHIR—
See Aden (Protectorate).
DHAHIR (T ribe)—
See Lam (Bani).
DHAHIRAH—
Haiar ^ ^ ar S e Strict of the 'Oman Sultanate lying between the Western
is divided fro™ n :e aUd ? e Ruba? '-al-Khali or Great Desert on the south-west: it
district of Tan af ^ Jabal-al-Kor at its south-eastern end and meets the
lelosram about 100* 'J ve9 ^ ern extremity. Dhahirah thus forms an elongated paral*

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Volume I of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries A through to J.

The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.

A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.

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1 volume (523 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.

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